Los Angeles County police are considering opening an investigation into allegations of abuse against Marilyn Manson, according to new reports on Thursday.
The Los Angeles sheriff’s department plans to speak with one of Manson’s alleged victims this week, reports TMZ, to determine whether a crime has been committed, whether it is under the department’s jurisdiction and whether further investigation is needed.
It comes after at least 12 women shared charges online against 52-year-old Manson, whose real name is Brian Hugh Warner, including Westworld actress Evan Rachel Wood.
TMZ says the FBI passed information to the Los Angeles County police after the federal agency was the first to receive complaints about the singer.
A representative told DailyMail.com that the sheriff’s office is aware of the reports, but that the department cannot yet confirm whether it plans to interview an alleged victim or is considering an investigation.
Los Angeles County law enforcement officers are considering an investigation into the abuse allegations made against Marilyn Manson (photo in 2019), according to new reports on Thursday
It comes after at least 12 women shared charges online against 52-year-old Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, including Westworld actress Evan Rachel Wood (photo together)
Wood named his alleged abuser for the first time on social media on February 2 (above)
It is not clear which of the women who alleged abuse is the subject of the reports.
It is also unclear whether the FBI plans to investigate any of the allegations, as it has neither confirmed nor denied an investigation.
However, Game of Thrones actress Esme Bianco said in an interview with Good Morning America last week that federal agents interviewed her.
The accusations against Manson started earlier this month after Wood, in an Instagram post on February 2, claimed that he started ‘preparing me when I was a teenager and abused me terribly for years’.
Wood started dating Manson in 2007 before breaking up in 2010.
She denied that they were just having ‘perverted sex’ when he ‘tortured’ her saying that they ‘never had a’ BDSM ‘relationship and that she’ thought [she] was going to die. ‘
Since then, eleven other women have talked about alleged abuses, including Bianco.
Evan Rachel Wood (pictured) was the first to publicly accuse Manson of abuse in an Instagram post on February 2, where she claimed he started ‘taking care of me when I was a teenager’
Wood started dating Manson, pictured together, in 2007, before breaking up in 2010
The 38-year-old Briton appeared on Good Morning America last week to claim that Manson kept his apartment cool to 62 degrees and dark with tinted windows, describing an incident where she said she was kept in her home for three days.
Bianco said: ‘They gave me nothing to eat, he gave me drugs and alcohol, and I was essentially not allowed to go out.’
She said Manson would tell her that he wanted to ‘kill other women’ and ‘sneak into the room where I was sleeping and rape myself’ in text messages.
He also made her dress in high heels, lingerie and stockings, she claims, and displayed it to her entourage “pulling on the dress to show the bruises he had given her”.
Bianco says her relationship with Manson, whose real name is Brian Hugh Warner, started about 12 years ago in 2009, when she was married to another man.
The two met in 2005 through Manson’s then-fiancee, Dita Von Teese, whom Bianco knew because they were both burlesque dancers.
Eleven other women accused Manson of various forms of abuse, including Game of Thrones actress Esme Bianco, 38 (pictured above with the rocker)
Bianco shared this photo on Instagram of wounds she said she suffered when Manson whipped her while filming the video for her song I Want to Kill You Like They Do In The Movies
Bianco and Manson are portrayed together at the XFM Rock Show in London in 2009 – the same year that she said her affair started after she agreed to be in one of her music videos
Bianco told GMA: ‘I was coerced, I was defrauded, I was transported from the United Kingdom to the United States, I was sheltered and then I was coerced into involuntary servitude, which included sexual abuse and physical abuse.’
His lawyer, Jay Ellwanger, compared his experience to ‘human trafficking’.
Bianco added: ‘I would like to know what I know now … that you can be trafficked by an intimate partner.’
Eight years later, Bianco identified herself as a survivor of abuse publicly for the first time in 2019 when she testified at the California Assembly about reforming domestic violence laws.
She said she took up the case after hearing actress Evan Rachel Wood testify before Congress in 2018 about the abuse she claimed to have suffered at Manson’s hands – without mentioning his name directly.
Manson’s ex-wife, Von Teese, addressed the allegations made to Manson in an Instagram statement last week.
In it, the 48-year-old burlesque star said she was ‘processing the news’ about her ex, whom she dated for six years before they married in 2005.
Von Teese insisted that the experiences detailed by Manson’s alleged victims ‘do not match’ his own experience with the rock star.
‘Know that the details made public do not correspond to my personal experience during our 7 years together as a couple,’ she wrote.
Bianco identified herself as an abuse survivor publicly for the first time in 2019, when she testified at the California Assembly about reforming domestic violence laws
‘If they had, I wouldn’t have married him in December 2005.’
Other women’s complaints vary, but include alleged beatings, lashes, sleep deprivation and use of drinks and drugs.
Manson denies the charges and has not been charged with any crime.
He turned to Instagram to deny the charges, writing: ‘Obviously, my art and my life have always been magnets for controversy, but these recent statements about me are horrible distortions of reality.
‘My intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners. Regardless of how – and why – others are now choosing to misrepresent the past, that is the truth. ‘
It was reported on Tuesday that he hired bodyguards 24 hours a day at his Los Angeles mansion after becoming ‘paranoid’ amid allegations of abuse.
He has reportedly not been out of the house for weeks, The Sun reported, and has spent time with a close circle that includes his personal assistant, his wife Lindsay Usich, and has been visited by someone from his legal team.
Usich, a 36-year-old tattoo artist, and Manson have been in an intermittent relationship since 2012, before they were married last year.
Earlier this month, the police rushed to his home to write a ‘social security check’ after a concerned friend was unable to contact him.
Industry insiders have sought to distance themselves from the controversial rocker with his record label, talent agency and longtime entrepreneur Tony Ciulla, all of whom have abandoned him.